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A preliminary design for the cover of ‘Touch’, a collaboration between Siphumeze Khundayi and Katia Herrera.

Sexual scribbling: A short list of new and classic literature on sex

Author and sex activist Tiffany Kagure Mugo shares some pivotal reading on sex, including books she has authored or compiled

Renee Bach, an American missionary who moved to Jinja, Uganda at age 18. With no formal medical training, Bach started experimenting with medical procedures she’d learn from YouTube. (Image: wjct.org)

End voluntourism and the white saviour industrial complex

We need to dismantle the unequal systems we have upheld in Africa. Divesting from missionary tours is a good place to start

For South Africans

Will colourism be SA’s red scare?

Reminiscent of the McCarthy witch-hunts, darker-hued people are seen as not ‘belonging’

My journey of reading women

My journey of reading women, writing as a woman and growing a wide heart

Growing up, I was taught that reading was the key to life. Now I read to write.

Keys is due to appear at Tel Aviv’s Nokia Arena on 4 July

Stars urge Alicia Keys to drop Israel gig

Roger Waters and Alice Walker pen open letters asking Keys to join cultural boycott of ‘unjust and unbelievably evil’ Israel

A walking wonder called Alice

A walking wonder called Alice

The writer best known for <i>The Color Purple</i> does not pull her punches or offer an apology.

Alice Walker in SA ‘to connect our struggles’

Alice Walker in SA ‘to connect our struggles’

African-American writer Alice Walker is the first speaker from outside Africa to speak at the Steve Biko Memorial Lecture.

Alice Walker to deliver Steve Biko lecture

Alice Walker to deliver Steve Biko lecture

Author Alice Walker will visit South Africa for the first time in September this year to deliver the 11th Steve Biko Memorial Lecture.